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Knowledge of the locations and sizes of seamounts is of great importance in applications such as inertial navigation and ocean mining. The quality and density of bathymetry data in the equatorial regions and the southern hemisphere are, unfortunately, highly variable. Our present knowledge of bathymetry, and in particular of seamount locations and characteristics, is based upon ship surveys, which are both time-consuming and expensive. It is likely that a significant number of uncharted seamounts exist throughout the oceans, and remote-sensing techniques may be the most effective means of locating them.
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Keating, B. et al. (1984). Field Tests of SEASAT Bathymetric Detections. In: Seeber, G., Apel, J.R. (eds) Geodetic Features of the Ocean Surface and their Implications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1673-4_5
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